Louisiana police held detainees in 'torture warehouse,' lawsuits say

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/09/20/baton-rouge-police-brave-cave-lawsuits/

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When Baton Rouge police officers detained Ternell Brown in June, they didn’t take her to the district’s precinct, according to a newly filed lawsuit. Instead, it alleges, the officers drove past the police station and down a side street to a row of industrial buildings ringed by steel fencing. They took Brown into one of them, a squat, white warehouse with no police markings, the lawsuit states.

This, attorneys for Brown allege, was what officers dubbed the “Brave Cave”: an unmarked police facility and “torture warehouse” where the department’s street-crimes unit detained people and subjected them to assault and invasive strip and body-cavity searches.

Brown, who had been detained on suspicion of illegal drug activity after officers found bottles of legal prescription medication in her vehicle during a traffic stop, was held in the “Brave Cave” for two hours, according to her lawsuit. Officers allegedly forced Brown, 51, to expose herself in a strip search and examined her body cavities with a flashlight. She was released without a charge.

Brown’s lawsuit, filed Monday, is the latest allegation facing an embattled Baton Rouge Police Department that has paid out settlements and faced scrutiny for previous strip searches. The department’s use of the “Brave Cave” was first reported in late August when Jeremy Lee, another Baton Rouge resident represented by Brown’s attorneys, sued the police department, several officers, the city and the parish, alleging that he was beaten by officers in the warehouse after a January arrest.

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[Marthe48]

1. Decent decent people

need not apply. To serve and protect is a phrase that make thugs on both sides of the badge chuckle.

What the hell is wrong with police who recruit thugs? What the hell is wrong with humans in general? I knew there were bad people out there, just didn't know there were this gd many.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Too many people on this planet.

[multigraincracker]

3. Let the police defund themselves.

All civil rights fines to come out of their budgets.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. Unreformable. FTP. K&R.